It’s not new.
It’s the global jihad.
The jihad isn't new. It's the jihad's ability to use science and technology, funded by capitalism and liberalism, to destroy science, technology, capitalism and liberalism. That's new.
Lenin was on to something when he made his quip about the West selling him the rope he would use to hang us with. Islam has found a way to turn cell phones, automobiles and explosives into smart bombs, and has planned terrorism with internet research, and funded it by unemployed Muslims collecting welfare in Europe. (To say nothing of the effect of oil money in transforming the world's mosques and extremist movements).
It's an amazing blend of savagery and science, all for the purpose of reducing the world to a non-technological, 8th century theocracy.
We're really off the edge of the map.